West side of the Hotel de Paris, located on Sixth (6th, Alpine) Street, Georgetown, Colorado. The hotel was built by the Frenchman Louis Dupuy, the proprietor, from three separate buildings, and was completed in 1890. The west side of the building is stuccoed to look like masonry. Iron filigree runs along the roof level, and a sculpture of Justice, with her arm raised, and three metal chimneys are visible. There is a balcony with a wire balustrade at the second floor level, with a door with a triangular pediment that opens onto it from the building. The balcony serves as the roof of a porch at the ground level, with rod and sphere decoration between the thin columns. A screen door and a metal bench are on the porch. A large banner reading "Hotel de Paris" with crossed American and French flags, is painted onto the wall; the first floor door cuts into the mural, and the balcony cuts across the painted flags.

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Formerly F25754.; Penciled on back of photoprint: "86n/ 5/7c strip 32 1644 28796 5 319 1879-15-15 110. Stamped on back of photoprint: this photograph is not known to be copyrighted or restricted in any other way. However, it is not accompanied by any relese (in the commercial sense) or guarantee, and the Library of Congress limits its responsibility to its own right to furnish photoduplicates as a reference service in lieu of the original. The Library can assume no responsibility for the subsequent use of pictures so obtained."; Title supplied by cataloger.; Two slips of paper with typewriting are attached to the back of the photoprint with tape; one is a carbon copy of the other. They read: "Louis Dupuy, eccentric Frenchman whose real name was Adolphus Francis Gerard, built the Hotel de Paris at Georgetown, Colorado, before the coming of the railroad. The frontier hostelry became one of the most famous in the Rocky Mountain region - Photo from Library of Congress. (Note: Illustrates Book Four, chapter four, The Gold Diggers.)" Penciled on one slip: "9 picas."; R7100014000

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